Who Invented the Internet and What Did Al Gore Actually Have to Do With It?

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While the World Wide Web was initially invented by one person (see: What was the First Website?), the genesis of the internet itself was a group effort by numerous individuals, sometimes working in concert, and other times independently. Its birth takes us back to the extremely competitive technological contest between the US and the USSR during the Cold War.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA
http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet#Origins
http://www.rand.org/about/history/baran.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_switching
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/email.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet
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http://www.govtech.com/e-government/Who-Invented-the-Internet.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/07/23/yes-government-researchers-really-did-invent-the-internet/

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